A new engine by TheUsualSuspects group JE8086 Downloads | The Usual Suspects
Yes, they swiftly released the JE8086 beta to the general public, which was rather soon after the internal alpha releases compared to the past. The whole T.U.S. project is in an ebullient phase of development and advancement 
Hi @zynthianers!
For installing JE8086 emulator in your zynthian, simply run this commands from your zynthian’s terminal:
wget https://github.com/dsp56300/gearmulator/releases/download/2.1.0/TheUsualSuspects-JE8086-LV2-2.1.0-Linux_aarch64.deb
dpkg -i TheUsualSuspects-JE8086-LV2-2.1.0-Linux_aarch64.deb
rm -f TheUsualSuspects-JE8086-LV2-2.1.0-Linux_aarch64.deb
regenerate_engines_db.sh
systemctl restart zynthian
As you probably know, this emulator needs the original firmware from the manufacturer. For legally use this firmware, you MUST be the owner of a real JP8000. If you are not, you should stop here. Only JP8000 owners are authorized to download and use the firmware.
If you are the happy owner of a JP8000, you can download and use the firmware from the Roland’s official website:
Then unzip and copy the MID files into the right directory:
/root/.local/share/The Usual Suspects/JE8086/roms
These commands will do the process for you:
mkdir -p "/root/.local/share/The Usual Suspects/JE8086/roms"
cd "/root/.local/share/The Usual Suspects/JE8086/roms"
wget https://static.roland.com/assets/media/zip/JP8000v1.05.zip
unzip JP8000v1.05.zip
mv JP8000v1.05/* .
rm -rf JP8000v1.05.zip
rm -rf JP8000v1.05
rm -rf __MACOSX
Please, remember that you SHOULD NOT DOWNLOAD or USE this firmware unless you own a real JP8000 device. Please, don’t break the laws!
All the best!
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Ahh! Don’t forget to update (Vangelis or Oram Stage) to get the hot-fix that allows the JE8086 to run in any MIDI channel 
Regards,
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Excellent inclusion @jofemodo, so swift after release! I can personally confirm that JE8086 sounds impressive.
Best regards! 
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I updated my install (Vangelis) and took it for a spin, added a few extra patches that i have, and it actually works fantastically good.
Its funny because i tried the T.U.S version on my W11 pc and i now and then get static in the sound (something i don’t get with Osiris or Ostiris). Due to this, i went and bought Adam Szabos awesome emulation “Airwave” which works flawlessly.
But this plugin on Zynthian works just as good imho. Its rather amazing that this instrument can be emulated so precisely (original having 5 (?) DSPs…?).
This is absolutely awesome 
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For even more amazement, check out this video where Giulio Zausa (giulioz, who is also the man behind VirtualJV) talks about how The Usual Suspects reverse engineered the DSPs used in the JP-8000.
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ciao e buon anno!
when I open Terminal from Webconf paste seems not available and I have to type the code: am I wrong?
Ciao Paolo
Depending on the OS of your external computer, paste from keyboard (cmd/ctrl+v) might not be directly available on the webconf terminal.
Try using instead right-click+paste (it works on my Mac and Win), or an SSH client like Putty for Win, Termius for Mac and ssh on a Linux terminal.
Cheers!
Hi! I tried the vst and it really sounds amazing. Is it lighter in terms of CPU load, compared with the other DSP emulators running on Zynthian? Thx for your feedabck!
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Hi @cfausto!
The original hardware employed four custom Toshiba TC170C140 DSP chips (five in the 8080). From the ongoing threads in the TUS forum, it seems that they found ways to optimise the efficiency of the emulator code (less complex than that of Motorola 563XX ), in order to be able to run more than one virtual DSP on each CPU core. Results are varied, depending on machine/OS/DAW, but in general JE8086 seems to fare better than previous plugins computation-wise, maybe due to lighter architecture of the original processors.
Cheers
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I did not find the way so I slowly wrote the code and finally I got it.
Is it possible to add presets too? How?
PS: I also wrote to giulioz (a real sw/hw genious) to ask him if a LV2 release of RDpiano is planned and it seems possible 
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Hm, do I need an RPi5 for this (currently having only RPi4 Zynthians)?
After installing (on current vangelis and oram) and adding a new chain the “chain-add-waves” do not cease to roll…
Not sure @C0d3man, if a Pi4 can handle the four emulated DSPs of a JP8000, even considering the highly optimised computational efficiency of Arm 64 on Zynthian.
Going from what I have read in the TUS Discord, where the reference minimum CPU spec seems to be an Intel 7 quad-core, my guess is that a Raspi4 might struggle to manage JE8086. Honestly, didn’t try that yet on V4.
Regards
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Ok, thanks @Aethermind!
Unfortunately, the plugin isn’t loading properly, so I can’t test the audio 
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wondering the same
saw some script in TUS plugins thread to generate presets, but doesn’t seem to work for me.
I have some sounds in .SYX format, but don’t know how to get them in there.
I’m working on it. Not easy, but doable.
Regards,
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